And yet, dear Og, so many other languages have words that cannot succinctly translate into English. A Portuguese word I learned today: Saudade. It cannot be translated into English and mean the same thing. I guess I was referring to English words that are so English specific that a translator (any language) would have a hard time translating that word in a foreign language. Are there any words like that in the English language?

The closest equivalent in English might be "pining", which is also fairly archaic - I have no idea what it's origins are, to pine? "Longing" is a bit more common, but I think pining has similar connotations of wistfulness and a touch of hopelessness - people could literally pine themselves into the grave: "pined away" - perhaps that reflects it's origins, i.e., a pine box - nobody ever longed themselves to death, I don't believe.

One anachronism I trot out occasionally: turpitude.

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The closest equivalent in English might be "pining", which is also fairly archaic - I have no idea what it's origins are, to pine? "Longing" is a bit more common, but I think pining has similar connotations of wistfulness and a touch of hopelessness - people could literally pine themselves into the grave: "pined away" - perhaps that reflects it's origins, i.e., a pine box - nobody ever longed themselves to death, I don't believe.

One anachronism I trot out occasionally: turpitude.

If a Litster writes a story without any sex at all, would she or he be guilty of immoral turpitude?

merkin noun a substitute for a vagina for male masturbation. (I haven't seen this one in lit yet, though its counterpart - dildo - has a very high frequency of use here).

The closest equivalent in English might be "pining", which is also fairly archaic - I have no idea what it's origins are, to pine? "Longing" is a bit more common, but I think pining has similar connotations of wistfulness and a touch of hopelessness - people could literally pine themselves into the grave: "pined away" - perhaps that reflects it's origins, i.e., a pine box - nobody ever longed themselves to death, I don't believe.

Finger pie or finger job refers to stimulation of female genitals with fingers. In the song, "Penny Lane", by the Beatles, fish and finger pie likely is a reference to the supposed odor of female genitalia.

Finger pie or finger job refers to stimulation of female genitals with fingers. In the song, "Penny Lane", by the Beatles, fish and finger pie likely is a reference to the supposed odor of female genitalia.

Yes, it's always been interesting that men have assigned the "fishy" smell to the woman. It's actually the smell of decomposing protein...and aside from menses, women's bodies don't produce any proteins in there - just a standard acidic environment that sometimes gets buffered by the alkaline secretion's of Skene's and Bartholin's Glands during sexual arousal. And that sometimes leads to the introduction of an exogenic source of concentrated protein in the vagina.

So, if it's the wrong time of month for endogenic protein...maybe she'd still rather he thought it was her...

That's especially amusing because in English we sometimes call tittyfucking 'French Fucking' while the French call it 'Spanish Fucking.' And the Spaniards? Well I don't know but in American Spanish I've heard it called Turkish and French. But the Spanish spoken in this Hemisphere has had a few centuries to drift apart from the Spanish spoken over there...

Any Spanish ladies want to help out with this? Especially if I can titty-fuck you as part of my research?